[Board] [EXTERNAL] Re: motions from June 18 meeting

Sun Jun 21 00:19:01 PDT 2015

I like Mike's idea of adding it as a question in the election process. It would be good to have more options than only 5 and 50 in the answer list if possible. I doubt a community e- mail discussion would bring consensus on the subject to be honest.

As for applying it in retrospect to this year's election, I am a bit hesitant as I like people to know the election rules before they decide to enter the election and accept their nomination. There is a huge difference between accepting when the threshold is 5 or 50 IMHO.

Bart

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> On 20 jun. 2015, at 15:21, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have to say that I don’t feel that I have enough information at this
> point, to pass this. If we do have time, can we table this until the next
> board meeting and use the intervening time to have a real public
> discussion of this? As this is probably one if the most important issues
> to our organization, I want to know what our members think and I don't
> know that currently.
> 
> Another option I thought of would be to keep the current rule but add this
> question to the charter member voting this year, so we really know what
> our members think. Then if it passes we could apply to next year (or even,
> if we feel its important enough, it could apply to this year).
> 
> So I'm -1 for now. 
> 
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> Michael Smith
> OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
> treasurer at osgeo.org
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 9:00 AM
> To: "board at lists.osgeo.org" <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Board] motions from June 18 meeting
> Resent-From: Michael Smith <michael.smith at usace.army.mil>
> 
>> Bart, it is not too late.  Where did the elections dates this year on
>> the wiki come from?  My head - I knew this discussion would take time.
>> Please check last year's dates, they were much later and tight.  We have
>> time, the dates were picked randomly by me and can be easily changed
>> through a wiki edit.
>> 
>> One month ago, if you felt so strongly about this, you could have driven
>> this, read my email, picked up the ball, and brought it to the community.
>> 
>> 
>> -jeff
>> 
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>> 
>>> On 2015-06-20 9:49 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>>> -1 Bart
>>> 
>>> I don’t feel we as the board can push this without consulting the
>>> broader community on it, and it’s too late to do it for this round of
>>> elections IMHO.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bart
>>> 
>>>> On 19 Jun 2015, at 21:29, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> Please also vote for motion bellow.
>>>> 
>>>> 5) For the new charter members elections, change the threshold of
>>>> required YES votes of charter members from 5% to 50%. See Jeff's e-mail
>>>> [1] for detailed explanations and the rationale of this change. If
>>>> needed, also check the Membership Process [2].
>>>> 
>>>> My vote is +1.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Vasile
>>>> 
>>>> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-May/012863.html
>>>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/19/15 7:09 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> minutes from yesterday'€™s board meeting are available at:
>>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-06-18
>>>>> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-05-21>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Motions to vote on:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1) Approve past meeting's minutes
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2) Accept OSGeo-BE as an official OSGeo Local Chapter with Dirk Frigne
>>>>> as liaison officer
>>>>> 
>>>>> 3) Move along with the 2015 election process with Vasile Craciunescu
>>>>> as
>>>>> CRO for 2015
>>>>> 
>>>>> 4) Approve to fund OSGeo President’s travel to FOSS4G Seoul including
>>>>> hotel & air fares in amount of USD3,000. The topic was not discussed
>>>>> during the meeting but it was already agreed in past years and the
>>>>> prices (hotel, plane) can go up if we  wait until the meeting in Como.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Vasile
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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